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Chapter Fourteen Lecture Two

Chapter Fourteen Lecture Two. Various Deeds. Various Deeds. Heracles wants to remarry Eurytus’s daughter Iolê was the prize of an archery contest Heracles wins, but Eurytus won’t give her up

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Chapter Fourteen Lecture Two

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  1. Chapter FourteenLecture Two

  2. Various Deeds

  3. Various Deeds • Heracles wants to remarry • Eurytus’s daughter Iolê was the prize of an archery contest • Heracles wins, but Eurytus won’t give her up • Iphitus, son of Eurytus and fan of Heracles, notices that some horses are missing after Heracles leaves

  4. Various Deeds • Iphitus can’t believe Heracles would do this, so he visits Heracles in Tiryns • Heracles kills Iphitus, thus violating xenia • Heracles must be purified, and goes to Delphi • Disgusted, Apollo at first refuses to give him advice • Heracles tries to steal the holy tripod

  5. Various Deeds • Zeus urges an end. • Apollo orders Heracles to serve a woman for three years. • Omphalê buys him in a slave market, and the two spend their in odd sexual role reversals.

  6. Various Deeds • Pan • Why he wears no clothes • Cecropes • “Black Buttocks” • Troy • After his release • Killed Laomedon and all his sons, except Priam (a.k.a. Podarces)

  7. The Death of Heracles

  8. The Death of Heracles • Battles river god Acheloüs for Deinaira • Bringing her back, they confront the centaur Nessus • He slips Deinaira a “love” potion before he dies • They proceed to Trachis • Heracles returns to Eurytus to get Iolê

  9. The Death of Heracles • Deinaira hears of Iolê and remembers the potion . . . • In his agony, no one will light his funeral pyre • Finally, a shepherd, Philoctetes does, and gets the bow and arrows in thanks • Heracles transported to Olympus, where he lives with the gods and his new bride, Hebê

  10. The Return of the Heraclidae

  11. The Return of the Heraclidae • Protected in Athens • Hyllus kills and defiles Eurystheus • Heraclidae (Heraclids) take the Peloponnese in the third generation • Dorian Invasion?

  12. Observations: Heracles Kallinikos

  13. Heracles Kallinikos • “Glory of Hera”? • Where from? • Boeotia? the Argolid? • Old fashioned, even in Homer • A hero of excesses and danger • Even shot Hera and Hades • Prevails against death and is made immortal

  14. Heracles Kallinikos • Heracles alexikakos • Serves humanity by ridding the world of dangers

  15. End

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